Cree People and Stereotypes

If one were to regard for images of endemical tribe in various forms of mainstream media such as magazines, newspapers, and television, they are akinly to visit these common stereotypes: the pitiful victim, the uncivilised warrior or the noble conservationist (The Royal Commission on Aboriginal People,1996b). Stereotype is an puzzle out of reducing, simplifying and categorising characteristics of individuals or a meeting of people in our undertake to look them, which excludes and marginalizes certain individuals and amicable groups in the process and mystify many damaging make on Indigenous communities. However, in this paper, I will argue that not only both(prenominal) Indigenous communities in Canada fill been aware of the stereotypes of them, they have in any case learned to use them constructively in order to confront environ mental and amicable issues that expunge their livelihood. Since environmental issues, such as the damage caused embrocate extraction, exploit and logging, are intertwined with social issues like poverty and substance abuse, it is substantial to first define their family relationship to one another in the lead attempting to show evidence of how the Cree familiarity in Canada has succeeded in using these stereotypes to their advantage. Finally, I will blend in on to discuss how Cree peoples have do progress in the reconstructive memory of their identity using these stereotypes.\nIn order to make intelligence of the interconnectedness of environmental and social issues that Indigenous face in Canada, it is necessary for one to understand the relationship between Indigenous people and their land. It is not but one between worldly concern and their surroundings, it is a very spiritual, emotional, mental and physical relationship between human beings and their surroundings (Beverley Jacobs, 2010). Thus, environmental issues caused by overexploitation of resources has had a profound effect on Indigenous people s livelihood. T?ake the current oil tar sands development in Alberta as an e...